Humidifier.



HUMIDIFIER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1916.

1,243,975. Patented Oct. 23,1917.

. WILLARD Mod REID, OF .Poitrcmn'ron, oHio, A ssrcn'on To RElIDGEISLER-MANUFAG- TUBING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CQBPOBATION OFILLINOIS,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD MoC. R ni,

a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Port Clinton, inuthecounty ofOt-v tawa and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new anduseful Humidifier; and'I do hereby declare the following tobe a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled-in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothechar'acters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification. Y My invention relates'to 'meansfor humidifying thesurrounding air or atmos-.

phere. It particularly has for itsobject to humidify the air in a roomwhich is heated by artificial heating means such as by a hot air furnaceor a steam or hot Water radiaton, In order .to; show the practicabilityof my invention I have selected a formof construction in which it. isembodied to show howsuch a structure may be made and the manner in whichit may be used, it being understood, however, that different forms ofstructures may be made which contain the invention. The particular formselected is illustrated in the accompanying drawings. 7 r u 1 Figure 1of the drawing illustrates a perspective. view of the device having thewick used in connection therewith removed and one of the walls brokenaway for purposes of better-illustration. Fig. 2 illustrates a sectionalView of the'humidifier illustrated in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 illustrates ina conventional way, a wickthat may be used in connection withthe'de'vice illustrated in Figs.

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1, Fig. 1, is a three part container. Aside from the outside walls withwhich it'is'provided it also has the inner walls .2 and '3, which dividethe container into three parts.

.Water maybe contained in the'twoouter parts 4 and 5, and these partsmay be connected together by means of a pipe 6 which form a connectionbetweenthe two compartments 4 and 5, so that water placed in thecompartment l willflow to the compart-' ment 5 and thus bothcompartments may be filled and the water will rise and bekept at thesame level in the two compartments. The innerchamber 10 is provided witha V- Specification;of LettersPatent Patented (lot. 23, 19 1%".Applicationfiled November 1?,1916i. Serial No. 131,966.

being located near the pipe -6 or the lower edge of, the end walls ofthe. container :1. The-V-shaped wall-11 is provided with a plurality ofholes 12 which permit the heated air to pass readily rip-through theV-shaped wall 11 when the container 1 is placed over a radiator or a hotair register. A wick 15 is laid upon the venticulated wall or member 11,and its'ends extend over into andprefere ably to near the bottom ofthe'compartments land 5. The wick 15* is formed of open work to permitheated air to pass .up through i the humidifier. "The wick being placedupon the perforated wall'll not only acts by capillarity to draw thewater from the compart-' ments 4 and 5', but also acts siphonically touniformly "spread the water over the V- 'shaped mer'nben' The heatedair'thusrising from the-register or from the radiator 20, will be'chargedwith the water, which "will be evaporated from all parts of thewick. Al so, theV-shaped chamberextending to the top edges of the innerwalls 2 and 3, will cause a somewhat larger quantity of the heated airto pass to the corners formed between the V-shaped Walls and the walls2and 3,'the V-shaped member operating' somewhat-to deflect theaircuri'ent to the corners. This brings the greater quantity of theheated air to the points where the water-first issues from thecompartments 4;

- by capillarity and siphonically, and yet the heated air will beuniformlyhumidified.

I claim: In a humidifier, 'a venticulated- V-shaped 'member,communicating compartments located on the opposite sidesof the V-shapedmember, the corner of the V-shaped memher being adjacent the plane ofthe'bottoms of the compartments andthe edges of the V-shaped memberconnected tov the upper edges of the compartments, a wick locatedon thesurface of the venticulated V-shaped member and extending into'thecompartments.

In. testimony whereof, -I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification.

' WILLARD MoC. REID.

